MOHAMED RAFI: THE VERSATILE GENIOUS

It is over 28 years since Mohammad Rafi passed away (July 31, 1980), but his voice continues to haunt us even today. After all, he's left behind a rich legacy -- of songs sung by him over decades ago:

Today we salute the Versatile Genious:

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Dev thanks for your reminder, and wonderful message.

Glowing tributes were paid to Rafisaab throughout the world this week.

We did our part by pinning our humble tribute at the top.



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They always say that Kya Hua is one of his greatest songs, Hum Kisse Kum Nahin

I read somewhere that on Rafi was able to do that song.

Great write up here asj
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi

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Originally posted by amral:
They always say that Kya Hua is one of his greatest songs, Hum Kisse Kum Nahin

This one was a mega hit in 1977 and the stars Rishi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Kaajal Kiran, Tariq (actor), Amjad Khan, Om Shivpuri, was very popular.

Tariq and Kaajal Kiran was featured in some of the music that dominated that year. It was intersting to note that Mohd Rafi got four songs in the film and Kishore Kumar also got four songs.......but unforgettable singing for "Kya Hua Tera Wada" won Mohd Rafi the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer and the Filmfare Best Male Playback Award whilst best Music Award went to RD Burman:

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Originally posted by asj:

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Originally posted by amral:
They always say that Kya Hua is one of his greatest songs, Hum Kisse Kum Nahin

This one was a mega hit in 1977 and the stars Rishi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Kaajal Kiran, Tariq (actor), Amjad Khan, Om Shivpuri, was very popular.

Tariq and Kaajal Kiran was featured in some of the music that dominated that year. It was intersting to note that Mohd Rafi got four songs in the film and Kishore Kumar also got four songs.......but unforgettable singing for "Kya Hua Tera Wada" won Mohd Rafi the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer and the Filmfare Best Male Playback Award whilst best Music Award went to RD Burman:

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ASJ, this song is still great up to this day, anytime i hear it i just stay still until it finishes...

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Originally posted by amral:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDbK1eZYVzg

Memories eh Amral? the slower version was really sad.

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Originally posted by IK:

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Originally posted by asj:

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Originally posted by amral:
They always say that Kya Hua is one of his greatest songs, Hum Kisse Kum Nahin

This one was a mega hit in 1977 and the stars Rishi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Kaajal Kiran, Tariq (actor), Amjad Khan, Om Shivpuri, was very popular.

Tariq and Kaajal Kiran was featured in some of the music that dominated that year. It was intersting to note that Mohd Rafi got four songs in the film and Kishore Kumar also got four songs.......but unforgettable singing for "Kya Hua Tera Wada" won Mohd Rafi the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer and the Filmfare Best Male Playback Award whilst best Music Award went to RD Burman:

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ASJ, this song is still great up to this day, anytime i hear it i just stay still until it finishes...

IK it is a pity that after such an outstantanding perfromances by Kaajal Kiran and Tariq, we did not see them went on to bigger things.

In the seventies when KK was on top, Rafi proved his mettle by by bouncing right back into things.

Too bad his sons did not follow in his footsteps
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MRS MOHD RAFI TALKS ABOUT MOHD RAFI

I did not have a father only my mother and an elder brother.
But from as far back as I can remember, Rafi saab was a household name.
My sister had married his elder brother, and it was she who brought the proposal home.
I was doing my sixth standard examinations and had just returned from school, when my sister told me, Ëœtomorrow you are getting marriedâ„¢. I was 13 years old and Rafi Saab was 19. I didnt know the meaning of the word shaadi, but did exactly as I was advised.
I do not want to elaborate on the marriage, because I was probably too young to understand what was happening to me.

Rafi saab had been singing from the age of 10. So when we got married, he was well into singing ghazals (which were a rage at that time), and film songs.
But since I came from a very conservative upbringing, I didn't quite like music, it did not matter so much to me. Even when we were married, Rafi saab did not encourage me to listen to his songs. He had always smilingly look at me and joke. ËœIf you only paid attention to my singing, who will do the house work? We would share a good laugh about it.

We lived in a chawl at Dongri in the beginning of our marriage. I never felt anything, because I knew my young husband would be great one day. A little later, we shifted to a chawl in Bhendi Bazar, but Rafi saab did not quite like the area. So by the grace of Allah and fate, we soon took up an ownership flat at Colaba.

I never interfered in my husband's work, but I realised that things were looking up for us. Even though Rafi saab never showed it he remained a simple man throughout his fame. In 1954, we shifted to our home in Bandra and have remained here ever since. It was here that we had six of our seven children, four sons and three daughters.

Rafi saab was a very simple human being.
His life revolved around his children. In fact, I would say unki zindagi bachche the.
I can not recall a single moment when he never asked about them.
His was a routine: a home-to-recording-and-back-home schedule. After which, he would promptly ask me if the children wanted anything. There was nothing he would not give them.
Only the Almighty above knows how they did not grown up spoilt. They adored their father and were very proud of him.
The only thing the children disliked about their abba was that he did not encourage taking them to recordings, functions or movies. In fact, they hated going to the movies with their father, because it was always the case of, Let us enter after the film begins and we will leave before it ends. The kids always complained that they did not know what the start and end was!

All this stemmed from the fact that Rafi saab disliked publicity of any kind. It was funny, because even if we were attending a marriage, he would promptly tell the driver to wait near the gate. He would enter, go straight to the bridal couple and after wishing them warmly, he would walk back to the car and we would drive home. It was quite a joke really.

Even the interviews he had to give, were not clone by him. The previous night, he would sit with his elder brother Abdul Amin who would explain to him how to answer.
All Rafi saab interviews were done by his elder brother. Infact, he treated Abdul saab like a father the man literally caught my husband's finger and taught him to walk. Abdul saab figures very prominently in making my husband the celebrity he finally became.

Habits? Rafi saab as far back as I remember, would wake up every day at 3am and do his Ëœriyaaz. After about two-and-a-half-hours of that, he would go and play a game of badminton.
Yes, the only funny habit he did have, was to fly kites. Even if he had a half-hour break between one recording and another, he would rush home, run up to the terrace and start flying his kites. He was like a child when it came to his kite flying. And he would sulk like a baby if his kites were cut. This habit was his only love till the end.

I think his greatness lay in his humble attitude towards people. He was very religious and never forgot to thank Allah for what he had become and achieved.
The whole world around him had progressed, people had changed, but Rafi saab knew nothing of it, his ways never changed according to the times.
For him, it was the togetherness of his family which mattered. I think he was at his best when he would call all of our relatives over, ask me to cook a lovely meal and sit and chat. The unity of our whole family, is what Rafi saab was very sentimental about.
My husband did not have any favourite singers. For any song that was sung well, he would praise the singer. And even if he did like someone more than another, it was never mentioned, even to us. He always felt that if he took sides, he would be hurting so many others in the bargain.
If anyone came and said, ËœRafi saab, you sang so well that that movie is a hit and the hero has become big, he would answer, Ëœif it was not for the music director or that hero, I would not be singing that song. Inki vajay se mujhe kaam mila

Every music director that he worked with was treated with equal respect. For example: when Rafi saab was already an established singer, Laxmikant-Pyarelal were violinists in Shankar-Jaikishen's group. Yet, when Laxmi-Pyare became big, never once did Rafi saab consider them as mere violinists. He would always say, ËœMere ustaad hain, I will learn more by
singing for him.

Favourite songs? I know he loved his song from Dulari under Naushad saab's music Ëœsuhani raat dhal chuki, na jaane tum kab aaogee

But there were quite a few of his own songs which he liked. I knew it, because after his recording, he would gather the children, bring out the harmonium and sing the song. He would do this quite often when he was in a happy mood. What Rafi saab did quite enjoy, was when he had sung a song with a star like with Nanda in Jab Jab Phool Khile or with Saira in Aman.

He always told us excitedly,ËœToday I sang with so-and-so.
Favourite films? God knows what he liked about it, but he saw Sholay thrice.
He attended many trials, but I do not remember him mentioning any film in particular.

As far as actors were concerned, Rafi saab did have a special liking for Sammiji and Dharamji.
Shammiji, almost at every recording, would listen to Rafi saab and literally act out how he would do a particular line, or make an expression with a particular word.
Dharamji was another actor who always openly showered his love on Rafi saab. Bada pyar tha in dono actoron ke liye. In fact, I am proud to say that I do not think there is any film industry person who did not love my husband. And personally, he never spoke a word against anyone.


I spent the most wonderful 35 years of my life with Rafi saab, before he passed away on
July 31, 1980. He was going to be 54. I remember it even today. He had been requested to do a Bengali recording for their Kaali pooja album. The day before that, he told me ËœI am tired, I do not think I will be able to sing this Bengali song. So I told him to tell the people to take somebody else. ËœNo, no they are coming all the way from Calcutta in the hope that I will agree. I will do it this year, but next year I will say no

Today, when I look back I am grateful for the children we have borne. They have been wonderful sons and daughters, and have been my strength for the last /// years, after his passing away. But yet there are moments when I wish I was 13 years old and Rafi saab was 19. There are times when I wish he would come to me like he would nearly every evening, sit beside me and ask me, What is troubling you? Tell me your troubles and they will all go away.


The next day, he sat for rehearsal from 9:30am and was in pain, but he refused to tell us anything till 12:30 in the afternoon. We scoulded him about it, but he told us,ËœThose who come to the Rafi residence, should never return empty-handed. These were his last words.

He was in a lot of pain and was sweating profusely. It was also in the month of Ramzan, so he was hungry. His hands and feet were yellow. The doctors asked us to shift him to a hospital, explaining that Rafi saab had suffered a very major heart attack. The end came soon after that.

THE MASTER WAS NO MORE 07/31/80

Year :1949
Singer ) :Mohd Rafi
Lyricist :Shakeel Badayuni
Musician :Naushad

SUHANI RAAT..........DULARI (1949)

Suhaani raat dhal chuki
The lovely night has decended
Na jaane tum kab aaoge
I don't know when you will come
Suhaani raat dhal chuki
The lovely night has decended
Na jaane tum kab aaoge
I don't know when you will come
Jahan ki rut badal chuki
The world's the climate have changed
Na jaane tum kab aaoge
I don't know when you will come

Nazaarein apni mastiyaan dikha dikhaake so gaye
The sights have shown their effects and are now gone
Sitaarein apni roshni luta lutaake so gaye
The stars have brilliantly shone and are now no more
Har ek shamma jal chuki
Every lamp that lit has burnt out
Na jaane tum kab aaoge
When are you going to come

Suhaani raat dhal chuki
The lovely night has decended
Na jaane tum kab aaoge
I don't know when you will come

Tadap rahe hai hum yahan
I am suffering here
Tadap rahe hai hum yahan tumhaare intezaar mein
I am suffering whilst waiting on you
Tumhaare intezaar mein
Waiting on you
Tumhaare intezaar mein
Waiting on you
Fiza ka rang aa chala hai
the colorful springtime is almost here
Mausam-e-bahaar mein
in the beautiful season
Mausam-e-bahaar mein
in the beautiful season
Hawa bhi rukh badal chuki
The winds have also changed directions
Na jaane tum kab aaoge
I don't know when you will come

Suhaani raat dhal chuki
The lovely night has decended
Na jaane tum kab aaoge
I don't know when you will come

Trans:Oldie Fan

BEAUTIFUL SONG, GREAT POETRY: OUR THANKS GOES TO LYNN WITHOUT WHOSE EFFORT THIS COULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE

VINTAGE: LIKE OLD WINE

Ripped from GNI'sMOHAMED RAFI: THE VERSATILE GENIOUS

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QUOTE"It was also in the month of Ramzan, so he was hungry. QUOTE

It is related by Abu Hurairah (RAA) that the Apostle of God (sallallaho alaihi wa sallam) said "When the month of Ramadhan comes, the Gates of Heaven are thrown open and the Gates of Hell are shut, and the devils are put behind bars" In another report, the "Gates of Mercy" are mentioned in place of the "Gates of Heaven". [Bukhari and Muslim]

Rafisaab is in heaven entertaining the Angels? perhaps.

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In 1954, we shifted to our home in Bandra and have remained here ever since. It was here that we had six of our seven children, four sons and three daughters.

Seven children, and not one take after the Master, he was a gift from the Almighty to mankind, once in a while, we are blessed with such personality.

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Mohd Rafi: GNI Tributes:

Courtesy Youtube: Tribute to Mohammed Rafi sahab

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GNI's SHANTHA SENADHEERA TRIBUTE TO THE MASTER:

Friends .................
Finally I finished my humble tribute to my hero Rafi Sahab. I thank everyone here for their support. Thank you Amral, Thank you Asj. Special thanks to Saeed for his beautiful and helpful translations.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NAYwanTVFx8

Cheers,
Shantha

Well done Shanthaji.
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THE SINGER THAT COMES NEAREST TO THE MASTER: SONU NIGAM

CD 1 CD 2
1. KYA HUA TERA VADA
2. BAHARO PHOOL BARSAO
3. SUHANI RAAT DHAL CHUKI
4. AN EVENING IN PARIS
5. YAAD NA JAYE BEETE DINON KI
6. AAJ MAUSAM BADA BEIMAAN HAI
7. AANE SE USKE AAYE BAHAR
8. TAARIF KAROON KYA USKI
9. DIL KE JHAROKHE MEN
10. TERI GALIYON MEIN 11. TUM JO MIL GAYE HO
12. HAM TUM SE JUDA HOKE
13. BARBAD-E-MOHABBAT KI DUA
14. MUJHE TERI MOHABBAT KA SAHARA
15. PATHAR KE SANAM
16. GULABI ANKHEN
17. YAAD NA JAYE BEETE DINON KI (instrumental)
18. BAHARO PHOOL BARSAO (instrumental)
19. SUHANI RAAT DHAL CHUKI (instrumental)
20. TERI GALIYON MEIN (instrumental)
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Originally posted by asj:

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Originally posted by IK:

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Originally posted by asj:

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Originally posted by amral:
They always say that Kya Hua is one of his greatest songs, Hum Kisse Kum Nahin

This one was a mega hit in 1977 and the stars Rishi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Kaajal Kiran, Tariq (actor), Amjad Khan, Om Shivpuri, was very popular.

Tariq and Kaajal Kiran was featured in some of the music that dominated that year. It was intersting to note that Mohd Rafi got four songs in the film and Kishore Kumar also got four songs.......but unforgettable singing for "Kya Hua Tera Wada" won Mohd Rafi the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer and the Filmfare Best Male Playback Award whilst best Music Award went to RD Burman:

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ASJ, this song is still great up to this day, anytime i hear it i just stay still until it finishes...

IK it is a pity that after such an outstantanding perfromances by Kaajal Kiran and Tariq, we did not see them went on to bigger things.

In the seventies when KK was on top, Rafi proved his mettle by by bouncing right back into things.

Too bad his sons did not follow in his footsteps
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G'morning ASJ you're right i thought Kajal n Tariq would have done more films but they kinda faded away after a bit, too bad n it's a pity about MR sons not following him....maybe in a next few generations there might be someone..

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Originally posted by amral:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDbK1eZYVzg

oh wow! i just sat, played this one and loved it all over again..lovely.

Yaadon Ke BHarat always brings a tear to my eye